EH needs to sort out his studio monitoring.

[EdwardHimself]

Basically my old AKAI hifi unit i think has pretty well had it so i was thinking of getting a power amplifier unit to power my speakers for now, then i can get some new ones at some other point. Which ones are any good? I was thinking about getting this maybe:

[url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/tamp_s100.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/tamp_s100.htm[/url]

dunno if it's any good though. Really i'm looking for anything for between £100-150 and with probably no more than 100w pc @ 8 ohm. Any help?

Thks EH

[The Funk]

Nothing wrong with just using a hi-fi stereo amp. It won't give you XLR ins/outs but you can still find ways of hooking it all up. Another alternative is powered monitors.

[EdwardHimself]

[quote name='The Funk' post='787225' date='Mar 26 2010, 05:21 PM']Nothing wrong with just using a hi-fi stereo amp. It won't give you XLR ins/outs but you can still find ways of hooking it all up. Another alternative is powered monitors.[/quote]

I know but the thing is that i do need one that will fit in with the 19" 2U form factor so it can go underneath my PC monitors on my desk.

[The Funk]

I quite like the cheap Samson studio bits n' bobs. They have the Samson Servo 200 (100W a side @ 4ohms), around £125-130.

[url="http://www.google.co.uk/products?hl=en&q=samson+servo+200&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=_TiuS8fgA4qu4QaCncS8Dw&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CCwQrQQwAg"]http://www.google.co.uk/products?hl=en&amp...ved=0CCwQrQQwAg[/url]

The German thing you were looking at is 1U.

[RockfordStone]

ive got some m-audio av 40's [url="http://www.maudio.co.uk/products/en_gb/StudiophileAV40.html"]http://www.maudio.co.uk/products/en_gb/StudiophileAV40.html[/url] , great monitors for the price ive found

[EdwardHimself]

[quote name='robdeadstereo' post='788376' date='Mar 28 2010, 11:04 AM']ive got some m-audio av 40's [url="http://www.maudio.co.uk/products/en_gb/StudiophileAV40.html"]http://www.maudio.co.uk/products/en_gb/StudiophileAV40.html[/url] , great monitors for the price ive found[/quote]

thanks, but to be honest i'd rather avoid any M-Audio stuff from now on. Not really happy with their customer service. If i was going to go down the active monitor route i was thinking of getting something like these:

[url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/alesis_m1_aktiv_monitor_mk_ii.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/alesis_m1_aktiv_monitor_mk_ii.htm[/url]

which i know are more expensive then i said i had but if i'm getting speakers as well then i want them to be good quality, if that makes sense?

[s1ater]

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='788517' date='Mar 28 2010, 02:11 PM']thanks, but to be honest i'd rather avoid any M-Audio stuff from now on. Not really happy with their customer service. If i was going to go down the active monitor route i was thinking of getting something like these:

[url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/alesis_m1_aktiv_monitor_mk_ii.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/alesis_m1_aktiv_monitor_mk_ii.htm[/url]

which i know are more expensive then i said i had but if i'm getting speakers as well then i want them to be good quality, if that makes sense?[/quote]

I have those monitors, and bang for buck they are rather good.

Are you going to be mixing tracks?

[EdwardHimself]

[quote name='s1ater' post='796350' date='Apr 5 2010, 10:50 AM']I have those monitors, and bang for buck they are rather good.

Are you going to be mixing tracks?[/quote]

most likely yes.

[s1ater]

If your going to be mixing then its probably worth getting the mk1's as they have a pretty flat frequency response and wont colour the sound, therefore you get a truer representation of the sound.

Hifi speakers are generally biased towards certain frequencies to make the music sound nicer to the ear.